A Shattered Life

Alanna came from a dysfunctional family and never learned how to do healthy relationships.

Alanna has a son who is highly autistic and ADHD. They were living in their car and then in a shelter in Seattle, Washington. While in the shelter someone shattered all the windows in her
car. It proved to be a good metaphor for her shattered life.

She decided it was an unsafe and unhealthy environment. She drove in a car with no windows
for 22 hours to Los Angeles to restart her life and got accepted at Hope Gardens Family Center.
Alanna found God in a shelter and he began to strip away things in her life that no longer
served her. From being homeless she learned to be patient with her son. She has learned to
control her emotions and curb her foul language. These are just the outward evidences of a
new heart that loves God.

God has blessed her. She graduated the mission program, took advantage of the resources
available, getting her son the help he needs, she got a job, a car, and now a lease for an
apartment.

Deed and Truth, along with the House2Home team from All Nations Church recently moved
Alanna and her son into their first place. With the help of the church volunteers and the donors
of furniture and furnishings we were overjoyed to turn Alanna’s house into a home where she
and her son, Kemoni, can feel safe and comfortable.

Alanna no longer feels like her life is shattered. God took the broken pieces and has begun to
recreate a new mosaic of a fulfilled life with meaning and purpose.